Just shipped 1000 115gr 9mm bullets in a flat rate box

[MarikinaMan]

What a deal USPS is. I asked my wife to drop it off the PO. She to me to FO lol.

The darn thing is absurdly heavy. Sending it to a Calguns member.

[stevemac]

Hopefully it's bagged and taped real good and not just dumped into the box.

[MarikinaMan]

Hopefully it's bagged and taped real good and not just dumped into the box.

I taped the box real good. No bare cardboard is showing. And its bagged in the unopened original Precision Delta bag.

Ive received lead ingots the same way. It's should be good to go.

[stevemac]

Nice! If it fits, it ships!

[stilly]

Yeah, watch how you bag/double bag it.

I sent a ****load of brass in once and it ripped through the bag and dumped on the floor




But 1000 pills should not be an issue. You can get them into possibly 2 flat rate boxes, maybe one, OR you can get them into a padded envelope.

When I receive lead from back east, the guy typically takes a large flat rate box and fills it with the smaller flat rate boxes and then puts the lead in the smaller boxes, then tapes everything together and down. It all ships nicely.

[BLEVE]

Nice! If it fits, it ships!

Actually that is not exactly true. There are weight limits based on the size of the box. I had a flat rate box refused for being overweight. The really tiny box only can hold 13 oz most of the med to large one are limited to 20 lbs. My local Post Office said it was a limitation of the packaging.

Just saying

[Fishslayer]

Actually that is not exactly true. There are weight limits based on the size of the box. I had a flat rate box refused for being overweight. The really tiny box only can hold 13 oz most of the med to large one are limited to 20 lbs. My local Post Office said it was a limitation of the packaging.

Just saying

People ship 65# in medium FRBs all the time.

[Calguns77]

Actually that is not exactly true. There are weight limits based on the size of the box. I had a flat rate box refused for being overweight. The really tiny box only can hold 13 oz most of the med to large one are limited to 20 lbs. My local Post Office said it was a limitation of the packaging.

Just saying

My usps sm, med and lrg flat rate priority boxes all say maximum 70lbs domestic and 20lbs international.

[GW]

Actually that is not exactly true. There are weight limits based on the size of the box. I had a flat rate box refused for being overweight. The really tiny box only can hold 13 oz most of the med to large one are limited to 20 lbs. My local Post Office said it was a limitation of the packaging.

Just saying

Huh.
Widener's was shipping 5K 55 gr 223 bullets this way. On one delivery I ended up taking the package off the USPS truck because it was a bit much for the delivery gal. About 45 lbs IIRC
Probably why USPS has this policy now. Just too darn heavy for some of their staff.

[Barbarosa]

I recently received a flat-rate box with 3000 rounds of 158 grain LSWC. Our poor little scrawny mail man couldn't even lift it out of his truck. +

According to the USPS web site weight limit is 70lbs for all size boxes, unless you are shipping internationally.

https://www.usps.com/ship/priority-mail-express.htm

[deephouse]

Damn. I used the medium sized flat rate boxes to ship brass to Freedom Munitions and I double bagged them in addition to cut cardboard to double wall the inside. Those USPS boxes used to be a lot thicker but they cave easily if you stack them.

Initially I had them in Large flat rate boxes but they were almost 30lbs each so I put them in Med boxes.




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[RogerOrange]

These guys really pushed the limit of USPS and are the reason why USPS put a weight limit on the flat rate boxes (70Lbs).

Seapearls dive weights

[jericho89]

Yeah, watch how you bag/double bag it.

I sent a ****load of brass in once and it ripped through the bag and dumped on the floor




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So is that what happened to the brass you were going to send me

[Christopher761]

USPS hates me too.

[Christopher761]

So does Fedex and UPS.